Birdly Yard Terms of Service

Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service apply when you visit Birdly Yard, browse its bird guides, use its bird-discovery tools, or access account features. By using Birdly Yard, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the site.

What Birdly Yard Provides

Birdly Yard is an educational resource for discovering backyard birds and learning how to make outdoor spaces more welcoming to them. The site may provide species profiles, seasonal and regional browsing tools, habitat guidance, photographs, sounds, and related editorial content.

Bird sightings and seasonal presence vary by location, weather, habitat, and year. Results shown for a state, month, or search filter are informational estimates rather than guarantees that a species will be present at a particular place or time.

Birdly Yard is not a substitute for advice from a veterinarian, wildlife rehabilitator, conservation authority, or other qualified professional. Do not approach, capture, feed, or treat injured or protected wildlife solely on the basis of information from this site.

User Accounts

Some Birdly Yard features may require an account. You are responsible for providing accurate account information, protecting your sign-in credentials, and promptly notifying us if you believe your account has been used without authorization. You may not impersonate another person or use another person's account without permission.

Acceptable Use

When using Birdly Yard, you agree not to:

• Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
• Harm, harass, capture, or disturb wildlife, or encourage others to do so.
• Infringe intellectual-property, privacy, or other rights.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, or data.
• Scrape, overload, reverse engineer, or interfere with the site's operation except where applicable law expressly permits it.
• Introduce malware, send spam, or use Birdly Yard for deceptive or unlawful activity.

Bird Information and Third-Party Sources

Birdly Yard may organize or summarize information derived from public datasets, research, and third-party services. Taxonomy, range information, common names, photographs, audio, and external resources may change or contain errors. We may correct, replace, or remove content as our sources and editorial standards evolve.

Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience. Birdly Yard does not control those websites and is not responsible for their content, availability, security, or privacy practices.

Intellectual Property

The Birdly Yard name, site design, original writing, software, and other original materials are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. Third-party bird photographs, audio, data, names, and cited materials remain subject to the rights and licenses of their respective owners. These Terms do not grant permission to republish or commercially exploit site content unless a separate license expressly allows it.

You may link to public Birdly Yard pages and use the site for personal, non-commercial learning, provided that you do not misrepresent the source or remove attribution and rights notices.

Availability and Changes

We may update bird records, filters, features, or these Terms; correct errors; or suspend part of the site for maintenance, security, or operational reasons. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access or that every feature will remain available.

Termination

We may restrict or terminate access when reasonably necessary to protect Birdly Yard, its users, wildlife, or third parties, including when these Terms are violated. If account deletion is available, you may request it through the account settings or the contact method shown on the site.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

Birdly Yard is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim implied warranties and are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from use of, or inability to use, Birdly Yard. Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or liabilities that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Changes to These Terms

We may revise these Terms as Birdly Yard changes. The “Last updated” date identifies the current version. If a change materially affects registered users, we may also provide notice through the site or an account communication where appropriate.

Contact

For questions about these Terms or Birdly Yard content, use the contact option provided on Birdly Yard.